Violencia guerrillera y productividad total de los factores : Un Ejercicio de Contabilidad del Crecimiento Económico para los Departamentos Colombianos (1988-2005) (Guerrilla Violence and Total Factor Productivity: A Growth Accounting Exercise for the Colombian Departments (1988-2005))

Since the early 1960s, Colombia has suffered the consequences of armed conflict. He has left behind the destruction of much of the endowments of human and physical capital of the country. In this work, and from a perspective that has not received the same attention from researchers, we evaluated the relationship that has existed between the violence of the three main guerrilla groups who are operating in the country, (FARC, ELN and AUC), and the economic growth experienced by the thirty-two departments and the capital district that make up the State of Colombia. To do this, we build an index of violence for each of the guerrillas and develop a growth accounting exercise at the departmental level. From the pooling of the two exercises, we find thatthe average of the total factor productivity of the departments that suffered more guerrillera violence, has been lower than those that suffered lesser extent this